[ SECRET POST #4467

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⌈ Secret Post #4467 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Amazon)]



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02.
[Zeal & Ardor]


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03.
[The Umbrella Academy, The Haunting of Hill House]


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04.
[Abu from Aladdin]


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05.
[The Umbrella Academy]


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06.
[Vanya Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy]


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07.
[The Breakfast Club, Note from OP: that one scene where Allison draws a picture on black paper and then shakes dandruff "snow" all over it]


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08.
[American Gods, season 2]


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09.
[The Enemy Within, Kate Ryan/Erica Shepherd]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 60 secrets from Secret Submission Post #640.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Favorite villain, etc.

[nightscale]

Villain: Loki or Dr. Doom, oh and Cersei from GoT. Basically I like either the chaotic ones or the really self-serving conniving bastards who are good at getting away with their schemes.

Hero: Ooof hard to pick but I think the general archetype I like for this is someone who is just good down to their core, even if they're not always raised from the best circumstances. So characters like Steve Rogers, Finn, Magnus, Thor, Buffy, Goku. They just really wanna do the right thing and what's best for their loved-ones and I adore them.

Anti-hero: Tbh I don't always like this archetype much, it depends on how it's done but Vegeta works for me. I'm sure there are others as well but I'm coming up short. (Oh Nick from L4D2? Does he count?)

Re: Favorite villain, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

I am actually enjoying Cersei quite a lot lately. There’s a sort of blunt satisfaction to, when you’re not skilled enough to win the game by the rules, just straight-up deciding to blow the board up instead. She’s the worst sort of wild card, impulsive, explosive short-term decisions made out of desperation, but it does make her incredibly dynamic to watch.

Re: Favorite villain, etc.

[nightscale]

Honestly the biggest mistake people in Westeros make is simply underestimating how spiteful she is, because she's not particularly clever, certainly not as much as she thinks she is. But she absolutely will get you if you're stupid enough to let her live(which far too many people have done, lmao).

She's probably one of my favourite characters in the show/books because she still manages to win despite not having the know-how to do so like her father did. I just like effective villains man(I like Tywin for the same but different reasons: effective villain who had the smarts to back it up, and unlike Cersei kept his spite better hidden and more in-check, to a degree obvs).

Re: Favorite villain, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly don't think she's that stupid either. She's impulsive and seems to have next to no concept of long- or even medium-term consequences for her actions, but she does have guile and a degree of ability to judge risks, and she will absolutely hit you where it hurts every damned time. Her main problem is the long-term planning. She can't just keep hopping madly from crisis to crisis forever.

(I still love that she was one of the few to put the frights up Littlefinger, all the way back when. Power is power. He can manipulate things all he likes, but sooner or later someone's going to have a knife and no more use for him. As, well, it turned out. Cersei showed him that first. Just because she was fed up and impulsive, and it's not safe to push her buttons too much. There's no way to control someone like her long-term, because sooner or later she WILL explode in your face. You just have to kill her).

Re: Favorite villain, etc.

[nightscale]

Oh yeah she's not an idiot, I just think she believes herself to be smarter than she is, but absolutely is good at going for the gut-punch in order to cripple someone so she can take them down. As you said: hard to predict and control and even if you have her in a good place it will only last for so long as she's incredibly fickle.

I find her fascinating if morally reprehensible.

(Yessssss, can only nod at all your points here).